1981年的克朗奎斯特分类法将其列在五桠果亚纲中,1998年根据基因亲缘关系分类的APG 分类法认为应该取消这个目,其属下的两个科直接合并到十字花目之下, 2003年经过修订的APG II 分类法维持原分类。
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Batales 肉穗果目
Batales is a botanical name of an order of flowering plants. This name was used in several systems, sometimes in the spelling Batidales. Often this order consisted of the genus Batis only. In the 1981 version of the Cronquist system it was an order placed in subclass Dilleniidae with the following circumscription: